Chef Bolek

"No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." - Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road   Oysters...

"The product of genius." -- Anthony Bourdain A fried pork chop served on a buttered Portuguese roll. One of the most favorite food...

"Avan w te pikliz sonje w te chou non mache kawbosal." ("Before you were pikliz, remember you were cabbage at the Kawbosal Ma...

Mala sauce originates in China's Sichuan province,which is known for its spicy cuisine. The name, mala , means numbing and spicy; and, i...

It all began on a three-island archipelago nestled in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. That three island union is known as the Comoros. ...

The name comes from a 1993 movie about the Jamaican national bobsled team's first Olympic competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics, which...

Around this time last year, I announced -- or, more appropriately, confirmed -- a shift in my cooking and blogging toward learning, understa...

"And you only get big fish if you leave enough little fish in the ocean."  -- Carl LoBue, The Nature Conservancy Atlantic Menhaden...

The potato is a venerable tuber. Its history, at least as defined by its cultivation by people, dates back at least  7,000 years . Its origi...

"... anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American."  -- President Ronald Rea...